{"id":4003,"date":"2014-03-18T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780385350259"},"modified":"2014-03-18T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T05:30:00","slug":"cambridge-by-susanna-kaysen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/18\/cambridge-by-susanna-kaysen\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge by Susanna Kaysen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780385350259\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385350259\" border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780385350259\">Cambridge<\/a> <br \/><b>Written by<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/author\/results.pperl?authorid=15233\">Susanna Kaysen<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><b>Hardcover<\/b>, 272 pages | Knopf | Fiction &#8211; Literary; Fiction &#8211; Family Life; Fiction &#8211; Biographical | <b>$25.95<\/b> | March 18, 2014 | 978-0-385-35025-9 (0-385-35025-2)<\/p>\n<p><i>&ldquo;It was probably because I was so often taken away from Cambridge when I was young that I loved it as much as I did . . .&rdquo; <br \/><\/i><br \/> So begins this novel-from-life by the best-selling author of <i>Girl, Interrupted,<\/i> an exploration of memory and nostalgia set in the 1950s among the academics and artists of Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p> London, Florence, Athens: Susanna, the precocious narrator of <i>Cambridge,<\/i> would rather be home than in any of these places. Uprooted from the streets around Harvard Square, she feels lost and excluded in all the locations to which her father&rsquo;s career takes the family. She comes home with relief&mdash;but soon enough wonders if outsiderness may be her permanent condition.<\/p>\n<p> Written with a sharp eye for the pretensions&mdash;and charms&mdash;of the intellectual classes, <i>Cambridge<\/i> captures the mores of an era now past, the ordinary lives of extraordinary people in a singular part of America, and the delights, fears, and longings of childhood.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambridge Written by Susanna KaysenHardcover, 272 pages | Knopf | Fiction &#8211; Literary; Fiction &#8211; Family Life; Fiction &#8211; Biographical | $25.95 | March 18, 2014 | 978-0-385-35025-9 (0-385-35025-2)&ldquo;It was probably because I was so often taken away fr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}